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Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Quiz
Gemäldegalerie Berlin
  • 1. Who was the first director of the Gemäldegalerie?
A) Julius Meyer
B) Gustav Friedrich Waagen
C) Ludwig Justi
D) Wilhelm von Bode
  • 2. In what year did Wilhelm von Bode's term as director end?
A) 1933
B) 1890
C) 1920
D) 1924
  • 3. Who served as director in West Berlin starting in 1957?
A) Robert Oertel
B) Henning Bock
C) Cornelius Müller Hofstede
D) Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann
  • 4. Who was the director in East Berlin from 1960 until 1990?
A) Jan Kelch
B) Irene Geismeier
C) Ludwig Justi
D) Hans Werner Grohn
  • 5. Who served as director immediately after the reunion from 1990 to 1996?
A) Michael Eissenhauer
B) Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
C) Henning Bock
D) Jan Kelch
  • 6. Who is the current director of the Gemäldegalerie, starting in 2021?
A) Jan Kelch
B) Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
C) Michael Eissenhauer
D) Dagmar Hirschfelder
  • 7. How long did Max Jakob Friedländer serve as director?
A) 9 years
B) 5 years
C) 12 years
D) 3 years
  • 8. Who was the director of the East Berlin gallery between 1957 and 1960?
A) Irene Geismeier
B) Hans Werner Grohn
C) Robert Oertel
D) Ludwig Justi
  • 9. Which director served from 2016 until 2021?
A) Jan Kelch
B) Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
C) Michael Eissenhauer
D) Henning Bock
  • 10. During which years did Karl Koetschau serve as director?
A) 1936 until 1945
B) 1933 until 1936
C) 1946 until 1957
D) 1924 until 1933
  • 11. Who served as director of the West Berlin gallery from 1964 until 1973?
A) Robert Oertel
B) Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann
C) Cornelius Müller Hofstede
D) Henning Bock
  • 12. In what year did Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann's tenure end?
A) 2016
B) 1996
C) 2021
D) 2004
  • 13. In which city is the Gemäldegalerie located?
A) Dresden
B) Berlin
C) Munich
D) Vienna
  • 14. In what year was the current building of the Gemäldegalerie completed?
A) 1992
B) 1830
C) 1998
D) 2012
  • 15. Where in Berlin is the Gemäldegalerie located?
A) Berlin-Dahlem
B) Charlottenburg Palace
C) Kulturforum
D) Museum Island
  • 16. The Gemäldegalerie collection covers European paintings from which centuries?
A) 11th to 16th
B) 15th to 19th
C) 13th to 18th
D) 12th to 20th
  • 17. How many paintings by Johannes Vermeer are in the collection?
A) 10
B) 5
C) 1
D) 2
  • 18. Who designed the current Gemäldegalerie building?
A) Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler
B) Karl Friedrich Schinkel
C) Gustav Friedrich Waagen
D) Wilhelm von Bode
  • 19. What is the central hall of the museum described as by the institution?
A) An industrial storage zone
B) A meditation hall
C) A lecture theater
D) A royal ballroom
  • 20. Which English merchant's collection, acquired in 1821, was a major foundational purchase for the museum?
A) Edward Solly
B) Charles Wheeler
C) Barthold Suermondt
D) Federico Gentili di Giuseppe
  • 21. What caused the destruction of 400 works at the end of World War II?
A) Allied bombing raids
B) Deterioration in hiding places
C) Looting by soldiers
D) A fire in a Flak tower
  • 22. Which of these artists is explicitly mentioned as having five Madonnas in a room at the gallery?
A) Caravaggio
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) Rembrandt
D) Raphael
  • 23. The Gemäldegalerie holds the finest and most comprehensive collection of which national school of art?
A) German
B) French
C) British
D) Spanish
  • 24. What happens to the timeline of the collection as the visitor completes the circuit?
A) It is arranged by artist birthdate only
B) It moves forward, then backward
C) It is entirely chronological
D) It is purely reverse chronological
  • 25. Which painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was restituted to heirs in 1999?
A) Gersaint's Shopsign
B) Sacred Love Versus Profane Love
C) Amor Victorious
D) Rinaldo Abandoning Armida
  • 26. Where is Jean-Antoine Watteau's 'Gersaint's Shopsign' displayed?
A) The Altes Museum
B) The Bode Museum
C) Charlottenburg Palace
D) The main Gemäldegalerie building
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